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Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
Canada Extradites Schreiber to Germany On August 3, 2009, the Canadian government extradited Karlheinz Schreiber, an arms dealer and lobbyist, to Germany after a ten-year legal fight to remain in Canada...(more) Bruce Zagaris 25 10 2009-10-01 Germany, Canada Corruption, Extradition, Taxation, Arms Trafficking, Fraud, Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes
Former UBS Client Pleads Guilty to Filing a False Tax Return On July 28, 2009, Jeffrey P. Chernick of Standfordville, New York, pleaded guilty to charges of filing a false tax return. The agreement and press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice... Bruce Zagaris 25 10 2009-10-01 United States, Switzerland, Hong Kong Taxation, White Collar Crime
Indian Magistrate Issues Arrest Warrant for Former Union Carbide Head On July 31, 2009, the chief judicial magistrate of Bhopal, Prakash Mohan Tiwari, in response to a victims’ group plea, issued an arrest warrant for Warren Anderson, the former chief executive officer... Bruce Zagaris 25 10 2009-10-01 United States, India Administration of Justice, Extradition, Human Rights
SEC Report Shows Lack of Cooperation by Antigua Hindered Investigations of Stanford On July 28, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission publicized an Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) report that found its investigation of fraud and related irregularities of R. Allen... Bruce Zagaris 25 10 2009-10-01 United States, Antigua and Barbuda White Collar Crime, International Cooperation, Financial Crimes
Thailand Denies U.S. Request to Extradite Russian Alleged Arms Smuggler On August 11, 2009, a Thai court denied a U.S. extradition request for an alleged Russian arms smuggler, whom the U.S. wanted to try on charges of conspiring to furnish weapons to Colombian... Bruce Zagaris 25 10 2009-10-01 United States, Russia, Thailand Administration of Justice, Extradition, Arms Trafficking, International Cooperation
INTERPOL TRAINS LESOTHO POLICE TO INVESTIGATE COUNTERFEIT MEDICINES From June 15-20, 2009, police in Lesotho inspected 50 drug retailers, including supermarkets and pharmacies, which were suspected of selling or producing counterfeit medical products. The... Philip Mayer 25 10 2009-10-01 Germany, South Africa, Lesotho Counterfeiting, Intellectual Property, International Organizations, Drug Enforcement
U.S. Court Denies U.S. Citizen’s Effort to Have U.S. Court Intervene in Detention in UAE Due to U.S. Law Enforcement Participation On August 4, 2009, U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of Naji Hamdan, a U.S. citizen detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) either at the... Bruce Zagaris 25 10 2009-10-01 United States, United Arab Emirates Human Rights, Torture, International Courts, International Cooperation
Eurojust-Europol Breaks International Gang of Skimming Fraudsters On July 31, 2009, Eurojust-Europol announced an operation that interrupted a large international skimming network after a major police operation coordinated from the Europol operational center in The... Bruce Zagaris 25 10 2009-10-01 Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Ireland, Romania International Organizations, Organized Crime, Fraud, Financial Crimes
U.S. and Switzerland Settle UBS Document Request On August 19, 2009, the United States and Swiss governments announced an agreement to obtain 4,450 names of U.S. taxpayers with accounts in UBS pursuant to the U.S.-Swiss tax treaty. Two principal... Bruce Zagaris 25 10 2009-10-01 Switzerland, United States Bank Secrecy, Banking Supervision, Financial Crimes, Financial Supervision, Tax Crimes, Tax Enforcement, Taxation, Treaties
The Liechtenstein--United Kingdom Tax Information Exchange Agreement Liechtenstein had agreed on March 12, 2009, to meet the OECD’s tax information exchange standards. Liechtenstein, like several other previously non-cooperative jurisdictions, had been pressured by... David Spencer 25 10 2009-10-01 Liechtenstein, United Kingdom International Cooperation, Tax Crimes, Tax Enforcement, Taxation, Treaties
U.S. Obtains New Conviction in Los Angeles for Failure to Disclose UBS Swiss Bank Accounts On August 14, 2009, the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles secured a conviction of John McCarthy for failing to disclose his Swiss bank accounts and failing to file a Foreign Bank Account Report (FBAR) as... Bruce Zagaris 25 10 2009-10-01 Hong Kong, Switzerland, United States, World Bank Secrecy, Banking Supervision, Financial Crimes, Financial Supervision, Tax Crimes, Tax Enforcement, Taxation
The New European Extradition System – a Critical Review In the last ten years the European Union has legislated to create an “area of justice, freedom and security” across Europe. Following the horrific events of 9/11 and subsequent attacks in Madrid and... Catherine Heard 25 10 2009-10-01 Europe, United Kingdom Extradition
English High Court Upholds Hacker’s Extradition to the U.S. On July 31, 2009, the English High Court of Justice upheld the extradition of a 43-year-old British computer hacker to the United States, rejecting his claims that his physical impairment of Asperger... Bruce Zagaris 25 10 2009-10-01 United States, United Kingdom Extradition, Terrorism, International Cooperation, Computer Crimes
Trial Judge Denies Bail for Stanford and U.K. Court Awards Antiguan Liquidators Control of Funds On June 30, 2009, U.S. District Judge David Hittner overruled the U.S. Magistrate’s decision that Sir Robert Allen Stanford could be released pending trial, and declared that Stanford is “a serious... Bruce Zagaris 25 9 2009-09-01 United States, Antigua & Barbuda Administration of Justice, Fraud, White Collar Crime, Financial Crimes, Economic Crimes, Financial Supervision
II International Criminal Law: Multilateral and Bilateral Enforcement Mechanisms (M. Cherif Bassiouni) (2008 Martins Nijhoff Publishers, 602 pp.) Volume II addresses jurisdiction and the various mechanisms and modalities of international cooperation in penal matters. For all practical purposes, its scope applies to both the direct and... Bruce Zagaris 25 9 2009-09-01 World Administration of Justice, Book Review, International Cooperation
Berlin Conference on International Tax Crimes Recommends Further Action to Promote Transparency and Exchange of Information in Tax Matters On June 23, 2009, 19 countries participating in the second conference on the combating of international tax fraud and evasion agreed on further action through international organizations and informal... Bruce Zagaris 25 9 2009-09-01 World, Germany International Organizations, Taxation, United Nations, Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes
UBS and U.S. Jointly Move to Stay Proceedings to Pursue Resolution On July 12, 2009, UBS and the U.S. government jointly moved to stay the start of their trial on July 13 in order to pursue a resolution of the dispute and requested that, in the event a resolution is... Bruce Zagaris 25 9 2009-09-01 World, United States, Switzerland Taxation, White Collar Crime, Tax Enforcement, International Cooperation, Tax Crimes, Financial Crimes, Financial Supervision
U.S. Acts Against Mexican Cartel Leaders On July 12, 2009, UBS and the U.S. government jointly moved to stay the start of their trial on July 13 in order to pursue a resolution of the dispute and requested that, in the event a resolution is... Bruce Zagaris 25 9 2009-09-01 United States, Mexico, Colombia Money Laundering, Arms Trafficking, Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement
U.S. Report Chronicles Deterioration of Venezuelan-U.S. Counternarcotics Cooperation On July 12, 2009, UBS and the U.S. government jointly moved to stay the start of their trial on July 13 in order to pursue a resolution of the dispute and requested that, in the event a resolution is... Bruce Zagaris 25 9 2009-09-01 United States, Colombia, Venezuela Drugs & Trafficking, International Cooperation, Drug Enforcement
British Court Rules Algerian Business Mogul Khalifa Extraditable to Algeria On June 25, 2009, Judge Timothy Workman of the Westminister Court in London ruled that Algerian defendant Rafik Abdelmourme Khalifa is extraditable to Algeria. Khalifa is the former head of a... Bruce Zagaris 25 9 2009-09-01 France, United Kingdom, Algeria Corruption, Extradition, White Collar Crime, Embezzlement, Financial Crimes

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